The Italian-German Luciano Di Martino is currently a permanent Guest
Conductor of the Sofia Classic FM Radio Symphony
Orchestra. He made a highly successful debut in 2008 at
the Hamburg Staatsoper, where he continues to appear regularly as
a Guest Conductor.

He studied orchestral conducting at the Hamburg University of Music and
Drama with Klauspeter Seibel and Irving Beckmann, as well in Siena at
the Accademia Chigiana, attending international master classes with
Professor Ilya Musin, Valery Gergiev and Myung-Whun Chung.

Di Martino began his career in 1996 with the Hamburg Symphonic
Orchestra, conducting a Swedish symphony programme dedicated to
the composers Franz Berwald, Lars-Erik Larsson and Hugo Alfvén.

He continues as Guest Conductor of the National Opera in Riga,
the Symphony Orchestras of Solingen, Thessalonica, Bulgarian National Radio
Orchestra, the Sofia Festival Orchestra, the Sofia Soloists and
the Philharmonic Orchestras of Katovice, Macerata and Baden-Baden.

From 2000 to 2004 he was Music Director of the Bulgarian State Opera
in Stara Zagora. There followed engagements at international operatic
festivals, among them the Bellinzona Opera Festival, the Villa Adriana
Opera Festival, the Novosibirsk Christmas Festival, the Worcester
Music Festival, the Sofia New Years Music Festival and performances at
the Grosses Festspielhaus during the Culture Weeks in Salzburg.

With the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra he has conducted many
demanding symphony programmes dedicated to Mahler and Shostakovich, as well
Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du printemps.

Di Martino is a versatile conductor and is also actively involved
in contemporary symphony music; he has premiered works by Maximilian Kreuz,
Christos Samaras and Fulvio Delli Pizzi.

Live television broadcasts include gala concerts with some of
the world’s most distinguished performers, among them Ghena Dimitrova, Anna
Tomowa-Sintow and Kaludi Kaludov, as well symphony concerts with stars including
Uto Ughi, Maxim Vengerov, Pepe Romero and Leticia Moreno.

He also works with talented young performers such as Svetlin Roussev, Luigi
Piovano, Dag Jensen and Anton Barakhovsky.

In 2004 he conducted Boris Christoff’s anniversary concert at the Sofia
National Opera and in 2006 came Verdi’s Messa da Requiem
in memory of Ghena Dimitrova.